Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1907 — HARD ON POSTMASTERS. [ARTICLE]

HARD ON POSTMASTERS.

“If President Roosevelt were moulding a man to pleaoe himself he would not mould him after the fashion of Mr. Fairbanks,” says the Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Star. Well, hardly- _ Wheat sold for a dollar in Chicago without even consulting the sacred Dingley tariff, but in the next campaign Republican orators, if conditions are ripe, will be heard saying “see what we done!” A few of them may even say “see what we did!”

Knowing that Oklahoma will be a Democratic state when it is admitted into the Union, the Republican politicians are doing all they -can to keep it out until after the next presidential election. It looks, from this, as if they expect the election to be close. Mr. Bryan says that the Democratic party is good enough for him. Ail Democrats feel the same •way about it. And, by the way, the Democratic party just now is good enough for anybody who believes that the people should still control their government. The Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker asserted that any Ohio -harmony plan that left him out of the Senate could not meet his approval. And the Hon. William Howard Taft declared just as positively that any harmony plan that would keep Foraker in the senate was not to be thought of. When these sentiments became known the fight was renewed on the spot and dissolution of the G. O. P, is progressing beautifully.

Senator Beveridge finds something good in all of the trusts with a single exception The exception is what he “calls the newspaper trust,” composed of the big papers in different cities whioh are owned and controlled by the other trusts and special interests. Mr. Beveridge says that these papers lie to the people. The fact will be conceded. The trdit papers do lie to the people and the people are finding it out at last. Judging from the large number of actions that are to be brought to test various laws passed by the late legislature, the validity of the work of that body will scarcely be known until another legislature meets to do it all over again. It may be added, however, • that no action has yet been started to test the validity of the laws creating new state offices and increasing the salaries o£ others, all at an additional cost of $320,000 to the taxpayers.

The postmasters in Indiana are all Republicans, of oonrae, and all appointees of the Roosevelt administration. They held a convention at Indianapolis last week to consider matters relating to the service—so it was said. But Mr. Fairbanks agents were busy among them. Boss Keeling, United States district attorney, was especially in evidence and working all the time. His Activity as was oharged, was highly “pernicious,” And then there was Mayor Bookwalter, of Indianapolis. He delivered a speech of welcome and. said that the gathering looked like “a good part of a state Republican convention." He also told the' postmasters that he was a “great admirer of President Roosevelt,” bat to this he appended the following mysterious prophesy: “I am sure that the national convention of the Republican party will plaoe the banner of the Republican party in the bands of our safe and sane representative from Indiana.” It was said that this was “a sort of political bombshell” and that many of the postmasters trembled in their shoes. They had visions of the “fighting” of the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, and the chairman pf the meeting, with both eyes on his job, hastened to say tha| he hoped the postmasters, while they were at the convention, would ‘“keep their lips entirely free from the matter of politics.” Indeed, if what the Fairbanks organs have been saying is true, it will be wise for the postmasters to remember B’rer Rabbit and “lay low.” The said organs declare that the President is removf> ing from offioe postmasters who antagonize bis plans. As it is no part, of bis scheme to allow Fairbanks to be nominated, any public indorsement of that .gentleman might have fatal Consequences. Surely the V. P.’s boom is having a hard time of it.